''Afrarchaea'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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assassin spiders Archaeidae, also known as assassin spiders and pelican spiders, is a spider family with about ninety described species in five genera. It contains small spiders, ranging from long, that prey exclusively on other spiders. They are unusual in that ...

first described by

Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...

Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and Arachnology, arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History#Richard Gilder Gradua ...

in 1984.

Species

it contains fourteen species, all found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

: *'' Afrarchaea ansieae'' Lotz, 2015 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea bergae'' Lotz, 1996 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea cornuta'' (Lotz, 2003) – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea entabeniensis'' Lotz, 2003 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea fernkloofensis'' Lotz, 1996 – South Africa *''

Afrarchaea godfreyi ''Afrarchaea godfreyi'' is the type species of the genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well a ...

'' (Hewitt, 1919) (

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) – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea haddadi'' Lotz, 2006 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea harveyi'' Lotz, 2003 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea kranskopensis'' Lotz, 1996 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea lawrencei'' Lotz, 1996 – South Africa *''

Afrarchaea neethlingi ''Afrarchaea'' is a genus of African Archaeidae, assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984. Species it contains fourteen species, all found in South Africa: *''Afrarchaea ansieae'' Lotz, 2015 – So ...

'' Lotz, 2017 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea ngomensis'' Lotz, 1996 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea royalensis'' Lotz, 2006 – South Africa *'' Afrarchaea woodae'' Lotz, 2006 – South Africa

References

Endemic spiders of South Africa Araneomorphae genera Archaeidae Spiders of Madagascar Spiders of South Africa Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Archaeidae-stub